Man United boss Jose Mourinho’s dad Felix has been rushed back to hospital after suffering breathing difficulties and will remain there until Monday at the earliest

Showbiz website Flash Vidas said the 78-year-old was admitted to Sao Bernardo Hospital in his native Setubal an hour’s drive south of Lisbon on Thursday.

He is said to have been diagnosed with pneumonia and reportedly has to remain in hospital until at least Monday.

A private medical team which reportedly cares for him round-the-clock following his hospital release a few months ago is believed to have decided he needed immediate hospital attention when he began to suffer breathing difficulties.

Jose Mourinho said last October that his dad Felix was ‘winning the fight’ as he battles illness, but now he has been rushed back to hospital with pneumonia

His son, Manchester United’s new manager, was already in Portugal with his family after flying in to Lisbon on Monday for a pre-season break.

The 53-year-old was pictured at Lisbon Airport with his wife Tami and two children Matilde, 19, and Jose Mario, 15.

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Matilde’s British boyfriend Danny Graham, whose two brothers were on Towie spin-off show Life on Marbs, also flew to Portugal with them.

He is understood to have interrupted his family holiday in Troia, a finger-shaped peninsula a ten-minute catamaran service from Setubal, after being told of his dad’s new health scare so he could be by his side in hospital.

Former Chelsea man Jose Mourinho was recently unveiled as the new manager of Manchester United following the sacking of struggling Dutch chief Louis van Gaal

He said: “My dad is winning the fight.

“And he’s winning in a very secure way. He went to levels where nobody would expect. I think he’s a bit of a fighter.

“It has had a positive impact on me. The negative impact was the last period of last season, when everything happened, and the negative impact – the really negative period – took him until, I would say, September.”